John Moore
BOOK REVIEW

BACK ROADS AND GETAWAY
PLACES OF CANADA. Readers
Digest Books.

here are two kinds of

travel books; ones that

make you exceedingly
glad you're vicariously shar-
ing the author's adventures
from the comfort of your
favorite chair'and ones that

make you want to loss some
underwear and socks ina
bag, pocket the gas card and
hit the road until further
notice.

The Readers Digest Backroads
and Getaway Places of Canada
definitely belongs in the fatter
category. The eaifors and more
than 180 contributing writers
have put together what amounts
to the biggest, slickest and most
inspiring tourist brochure for this
country I’ve ever seen.

They've done it by opting for
“the road fess travelled,” virtually
ignoring the over-promoted
major cities and concentrating on
small towns, outlying parks and
recreation areas.

There is, for example, no sec-
tion on Vancouver but the
“Around Vancouver” section
covers most of the great side-trips
that can be made using
Vancouver as a base, from

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Manning Park to Pemberton and
Darcy, to the Sunshine Coast and
Desolation Sound. Similarly, you
won't learn anything about
Victoria from this book but you
will find out things that make you
yearn to visit Alert Bay, Port
Hardy and Telegraph Cove.
Based on what they’ ve.done
with the B.C. chapters (the anly
ground on which t have any
comparative knowledge), they’ve
done a hell of a job of ferreting
out the finest places to kick back

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and feel smug about being
Canadian, The downside ts that,
having criss-crossed the country
several limes, | now realize that
my visits to the rest of the coun-
try have been city-to-city affairs.
In short, I’ve now got an inkling
of what I've missed.

The short individual articles
are marvels of iniormative com-
pression. There are features on
major parks and well-chosen rec-
ommended “scenic circle” ram-
bles along secondary roads and

minor highways. More than 400
specially commissioned pho-
tographs liven up the pages.

(it’s probably churlish to point
out that they all seem to have
been taken on perfect sunny
summer days and therefore offer
a somewhat deceptive impres-
sion of the Canadian climate.}

The only genuine quibble |
have with this book is its total
exclusion of the “real North” —

See Armchair page 27

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